The Turn of the Screw & Shadows Against the Dark

<p><strong>Two terrifying books bound together in one striking <em>tête-bêche</em> volume: a brand new anthology of morbid macabre and mysterious masterworks <em>Shadows Against the Dark: Collected Tales of Horror</em> is paired with Henry James's definitive Gothic classic <em>The Turn of the Screw</em>.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>A stranger in a rowboat approaches a schooner in the blackness of night to beg for food. The residents of a secluded town whisper stories about a headless horseman. A poor Hawaiian is convinced to purchase a bottle that contains a being powerful enough to grant any wish. These unsettling stories and more are compiled together for the first time in <em>Shadows Against the Dark: Collected Tales of Horror</em> edited and with an introduction by C.S.R. Calloway.</p><p><br></p><p>A governess her two child charges and a house haunted by memories and-perhaps-something much more malevolent. The story has been retold countless times but never as effectively as in its original form. <em>The Turn of the Screw</em> remains frightening over a century after its initial publication expertly crafted to create fear in what is explicitly on the page and what is left untold.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>DOUBLE BOOKED®: <em>Shadows Against the Dark: Collected Tales of Horror / The Turn of the Screw</em></strong> combines renowned authors Algernon Blackwood William Hope Hodgson Washington Irving W. W. Jacobs Henry James Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson together in one stylish reversible paperback.</p>